Tekton Double Impacts

@James_w514, yeah, you know, that 8" driver is probably not optimal for large rooms. Mine is small, at 13x12x8, so I figured I would go for it, especially since bass is so hard to control and also difficult to articulate right with a sub. There are usually big tradeoffs somewhere in the design. Rationally, I ciphered that with my room size I'll get the bass articulation of the DI's dual 10", but perhaps without some of the struggles. 

Meh, if worse comes to worse and I fall crazy in love with the mini-Ulfs, yet I find bass to be lacking, I have this JL F110 sitting here collecting dust that I could really dial in to dip pretty low. The JL has room correction so it shod dial in nicely, and though it's a 10", itself, it sounds much deeper and goes much deeper, with great authority. Perfect for a smaller room. 

At least that's what I imagine at the moment...or we'll see. 

@james_w514,

When referring to "refinement" do you mean sonically or aesthetically? Or both? If sonically, please help me understand how you define refinement. Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback James. Much appreciated.  

Evolvist, I wish that that the mini Ulf was out so we could in fact get impressions on the bass, but I trust Eric to make it sound right. I don't know anything about speaker design but I do know that if he uses a driver with a larger incursion he can move just as much air as a 12" driver out of the 8". I've been reading about it more and apparently if the drivers are close together will sound as if coming from one source. I suspect that on the minis the drivers will be on opposite ends of the cabinet. As seen on this very forum, some people will immediately walk away because of the 8" drivers, but I have heard vertical arrays that lack nothing in bass. Eric may have a little bit of an upward grind selling them until he can get a valid reviewer to bless the bass (assuming it really is there), but the physical size has benefits and many people will buy it if it has the goods. As of now, we don't know what drivers he is putting into them. I would like to see 3 high quality bass drivers, but I tend to think now that it might be only 2. Everything is speculation at this point but it will be resolved and Eric really wants to take the $7500 market with this speaker. I think he will make sure it sounds right. He is not stupid. Many $7500 speakers have larger bass drivers (heck, even the DI has 10"). He knows what he is up against when he is designing these. Can't wait to find out what the end result is.

Evolvist, if you want to come over and play with sub integration with my DIs, let me know. I actually think you’ll like it. I take the sub in and out depending on the what genre I’m playing. And I always have it on to handle the LFE during movies. Just a thought.
And when yours arrive we can certainly put them in the same room with mine for low end analysis and everything else analysis for that matter.